“Reactor Rupture”: TEPCO says “there must be a large leak” in No. 1 reactor — Reveals No. 2 and 3 may have similar ruptures

“There must be a large leak,” Tokyo Electric Power official Junichi Matsumoto said to reporters on Thursday. “The fuel pellets likely melted and fell, and in the process may have damaged … the pressure vessel itself and created a hole,” he said. [...]

Similar ruptures might have developed in the plant’s No. 2 and No. 3 reactors if their nuclear material had heated to the point of losing its structure, Reuters quoted Matsumoto as saying. [...]

A “rupture” is a new term for describing a nuclear accident. What caused the rupture? Did the exposed reactor cores rupture the reactor vessels? If this is the cause, then we have a meltdown situation. A rose by any other name or lipstick on a pig does nothing except make people even more outraged by this sort of Newspeak.

Here’s the thing, folks. Long before the 3 Blobs hit groundwater, they will fall into pools of escaped cooling water that is very, very radioactive and that will send up steam much more radioactive than the blob hitting pure ground water. But at least we’ll get it all dried out under there thru heat evaporation. Now what happens to steam, how high does it rise?

The reactor has received just under 10,400 metric tons of water to date, and the destination of the escaping fluid was uncertain, he said, adding powerful radioactivity complicated a possible direct inspection of the area by plant personnel. So lets see- 10,400 metric tons X 264.17 gal/metric ton = [they have lost track of]
2,747,368 gal of radioactive water…

R4 is not leaning. it is diving/digging. just watch roof inclination. water into ground+heat = quicksand like soil. add an heavy structure on it and …

just like I said in comment few day before.

next steps : heatwave metting underround water. either it is a non leaking water lens and u’ll have flash vaporisation and whole corium buring/micronising into the air, either it is a partialy leaking water lens, leading to some geiser around, either it is an underground river u’ll have full radiactivity (tons of plutonium) right into the ocean, burning all life in it for good)

My lay but uncontradicted opinion is that what happened with reactor #2 early on was a full meltdown with the critical MOX lava hitting groundwater, blowing the reactor’s stainless steel pressure vessel through the roof while sending all of the core and possibly much of the pool of spent rods sky high. It was more than a brief hydrogen explosion which could only express its force radially; this was also a powerful steam explosion directing most of its force vertically. All of the behavior of #2 is consistent with a full meltdown hitting groundwater.

yes. there is no one here with a brain that believes those were “small scale” hydrogen explosion, in fact just looking at the damage caused clearly shows this cannot be the case. in case you were wondering there are anywhere from 120,000 to 600,000 fuel rods combined at the various spent fuel rod storage pools.

This totally unbelievable. Are they going to wait til we are already radiatated?
All these years of watching the destruction of america with fiat debt, knowing it was not getting better, and this shit rears it’s ugly head up.
And being tired of warning people about what’s coming. My neighbors went to visit the alabam gulf coast 2 weeks ago. They said the beach was not as clean as they remembered, a few years back.
I wanted to mow, and change oil etc and all I want to do is drink beer and say FUCK!.

Just sent this email to my Representative and 2 Senators “followup to my email of a few days ago. When my kids & grandkids, along with yours, sicken & die from radiation sickness, I’ll promise to attend their funerals if you will do the same for me?”

If they cant stop one reactor from going full meltdown, then how can they believe they can handle three of them simultaneously? Having too much pride often manifests as not seeming to know when to throw in the towel, doesn’t it?

So all three reactors are melting down and the politicians even when caught out lying don’t apologise but keep on lying. None of this is ok. Is there some way we can send these lying politicians to Fukushima, I wonder if they will keep lying then?

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